Life Magazine – January 3, 1918 (# 1836) – Police Crackdown

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Cover : Little boy in a pedal car has been stopped by policemen, “Where’s Your number?,” art by Tony Sarg.

– Full page with-color ad for Victor Records, world’s great catalog of music.
– Lovely half page ad for Eno’s Fruit Salt with great art of a woman on skis, not signed.
– Full page black and white ads for Mimeograph (clean hands), Pantasote Top Material for cars.
– FUNNY! Quarter page artwork by R. B. Fuller of a destroyer with a spotlight on a sub, one of the crew on the deck of the sub is bowing, “The Herr Lieutenant, formerly with the Berlin Royal Opera, forgets himself for the moment.”

– Full page art or cartoon art by William H. Walker (two pages : The roll-call of sons, half shows German officers in a roll call line, the other half shows a grieving mother in front of a row of graves), Rodney Thomson (German leader telling his underling to be more careful pouring German blood).
– Small photo of French war orphan Alphonse Le Roy, Baby 1787.
– Great half page comic artwork by Alex Sass, “Did you take all these prisoners yourself?” “Yes, Sir. I wouldn’t ‘a’done it, sir, only I’d run out o’ ammunition.”
– Two page centerspread art by Charles Dana Gibson, “The hopeful doctor,” Lady Liberty and Uncle Sam at the bedside of the “New Russia.”
– Some current events include : Our efforts to get into the war; How many troops do we really have in Europe?; Colonel Lewis trying to get his machine gun into the fight and General Crozier trying to keep it out; Fewer wails about the Navy than any other of our war branches; We want more facts about war things.
– And much more 2Neat vintage Life magazine 1918 content – fun!